It was love at first sight for a 25-year-old furry dragon who fell in love with a teenage girl who called herself Day Dreamer Fox Wolf.
But after her parents banned them from seeing each other because she was a minor, he hatched a devious plan to take them down, a California court heard.
Frank Felix, 33, who called himself fursona Entey, met Katlynn Goodwill Yost, then 17, at a “furry convention,” an event for people who enjoy dressing up in elaborate animal costumes.
Felix met Katlynn and her parents through the furry community, where his mother Jennifer acted as a shoulder to lean on for other furries to help them deal with their problems.
Felix’s accomplice, Josh Acosta, 29, also had a connection to the family and was a known ‘Brony’, a male My Little Pony fan. DailyMail.com learned that Felix’s fursona was a dragon.
Prosecutors say Frank Felix, 33, was the mastermind behind the 2016 triple homicide. He was escorted to Orange County Superior Court for opening statements Wednesday.
Katlynn Yost, 17, waited in the car with Felix while her mother Jennifer and stepfather Christopher were murdered.
Felix (left) and Acosta began planning their deaths via email after Jennifer told Felix, then 25, that she could no longer see her daughter.
The ‘furry community’ creates ‘fursonas’ that resemble animals with human qualities
Felix is charged with three counts of murder and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.
Acosta was found guilty of all three counts of murder on November 8, 2018 and sentenced to life in prison on December 14 of that same year.
After discovering her daughter’s relationship with Felix, then 25, Jennifer, 39, told him she should stop seeing him, the court in Santa Ana, California, heard.
Her friend Melinda Giles, who is also furry, told DailyMail.com in 2016: “To protect their daughter, Chris and Jenn said, ‘We don’t want you to be friends with our daughter again.’
After their relationship ended, Felix and Acosta, then 21 years old and a private first class in the Army stationed at Fort Irwin, conspired to free Katlynn from her parents. the daily newsletter reported.
The obsession, after their relationship fell apart, grew to the point of self-mutilation. Prosecutors described how in one case, Felix cut himself in front of the teenager.
During the week before the murder, he allegedly planned their deaths with Acosta via email.
They carried out this plan during the early hours of September 24, 2016.
The bodies of Jennifer, her husband Christopher Yost, 34, and their family friend Arthur ‘Billy’ Boucher, 28, were found by their six-year-old daughter in their Fullerton home.
His 9-year-old daughter was also in the house at the time of the murder, but was unharmed.
They carried out their plan during the early hours of September 24, 2016 using Felix’s father’s shotgun: they cut the security lock with a bolt cutter they had bought that week.
The community is mostly online, but they get together to meet each other at conventions like the Anthro Weekend Utah furry convention.
Katlynn and her mother Jennifer belonged to the furry community. The 17-year-old’s fursona was named Day Dreamer Fox Wolf
Félix drew his own dragon ‘fursona’ Entey on deviantart
Prosecutors presented a week-long timeline they say showed the killing was premeditated during opening statements at the Orange County Justice Center.
They purchased bolt cutters, ear plugs, and shotgun ammunition in Burbank, California.
The prosecution claimed that Felix wrote to an acquaintance: “I could be helping someone in the murder.” When the friend advised him not to continue, Felix changed his mind and said he was talking about an animal.
They also noted that the defendant was ‘nervous’ in email exchanges with Acosta detailing his plans. In one case, they wrote that anyone who opened the front door would be pushed aside or shot.
Acosta was the one who agreed to carry out the murders after Katlynn told them that she had been sexually abused by her stepfather Christopher on a weekly basis; He would also testify about this at the former Army mechanic’s trial in 2018 in exchange for immunity.
The 17-year-old let them into the house and waited in the car with Felix while Acosta entered the residence.
Katlynn’s mother, Jennifer, was a pillar in the community and often let other furries lean on her during their difficult times.
Acosta agreed to carry out the murders. He shot family friend Arthur ‘Billy’ Boucher, 28, on the couch and Jennifer in the head while she slept.
Acosta shot and killed Katlynn’s stepfather, Christopher, after he tried to escape through the back door.
Using Felix’s father’s shotgun, Acosta shot Boucher in the head while she was sleeping on the couch, then entered Jennifer’s room where he shot her between the eyes while she was sleeping, and finally shot Christopher as he tried to escape through the back door. . , showed photos obtained by DailyMail.com.
After the couple’s young children found their bodies, the teenager was considered missing until she was later found. Authorities at the base where Acosta was stationed found the three shotgun shells that were later linked to the murder.
Felix told detectives that he “knew she wouldn’t be safe if her parents weren’t killed,” the Daily Bulletin reported.
Officials at the military base at Fort Irwin, where Acosta, 21, was stationed, found the three projectiles that were later linked to the murder.
It is said that there are about 2.5 million furries worldwide.
Felix’s defense attorney, David Paulson, declined to make an opening statement Wednesday, preferring to speak later in the trial.
The furry enthusiast also admitted that he knew the children were home and planned to leave food for them after massacring their parents, prosecutors said. They also knew that Boucher would stay the night, and Felix admitted that he knew there would be a third body at the end of the bloodshed.
Acosta’s defense during his 2018 trial argued that Katlynn had manipulated the couple into carrying out the murders. It is unclear what angle Felix’s defense will take, as they declined to speak until later in the trial.